Camila Cabello Reveals She Was "Completely Broken" Before Going Solo

In the 147 days since Camila Cabello split from Fifth Harmony, she's covered a lot of ground: she landed her first solo magazine cover (on Seventeen, duh) and won a Radio Disney Music Award. Fans knew she was working on new music — including a song about moving from Cuba to Mexico to the United States at age six — but there weren't many concrete details about when her first solo single or album would drop.

On Sunday, Camila mysteriously Instagrammed three photos of blurred text on what looked like newspaper. She also changed her profile picture to the same image.

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If you continually refreshed all her social media pages for the next several hours, you were eventually rewarded with the announcement that her first single "I Have Questions" drops this Friday, May 19th, and her album The Hurting The Healing The Loving will follow at some point.

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In the note, Camila explained that she began writing "I Have Questions" in a hotel bathroom while on tour with Fifth Harmony a little over a year ago. She described herself as "completely broken," and explained that the process of writing the album helped her heal.

"i was completely broken during that time, i was in the kind of pain that's uncomfortable to talk about, and it was the kind of chapter you never want to read out loud," she wrote. "i couldn't write another song for 6 months because writing meant i had to feel everything, and i wasn't ready to do that yet. so when i graduated from hotel bathrooms to studios to make my first album, i was making music about everything BUT what i was going through, it was like a secret burning on my tongue and for some reason i could not get myself to say it till one day i just could not run anymore. i pulled up the lyrics from the year before, and 'I have questions' was written. after that i wrote a sad song everyday, everything i wanted to say, every lyric on my phone, i said everything until i got tired of writing about it. until i was sick of the sad songs!!!!! as i got happier and happier, i realized the songs were getting happier and happier. and i realized i wasn't making music just to make an album anymore, i was making this music to heal."

To quote one fan:

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